Listen Up! Here's One Convention Where Talk Is Cheap

Group Glorifies the Art of Staying Quiet; Your Inner Voice as GPS

By

Anne Kadet

July 5, 2013 10:35 p.m. ET

What do you talk about at a two-day conference where the sole topic is listening? For the International Listening Association, a society of dedicated listeners that gathers every year for a big convention, it's a perennial conundrum.

The joke among presenters, of course, is that you can't find a better audience—they're all ears.